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After years of delays and just two weeks of testimony, military prosecutors rested their case
yesterday in the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

Hasan, 42, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted
premeditated murder in connection with the shooting at an Army base in central Texas on Nov. 5,
2009. If convicted, the Army psychiatrist could face the death penalty.

Prosecutors summoned nearly 90 witnesses and submitted hundreds of pieces of evidence to
build their case against Hasan, arguing that the American-born Muslim was motivated by radical
militant beliefs to plan his attack on fellow soldiers after he had been ordered to deploy to
Afghanistan.

It was unclear yesterday whether Hasan, who has been representing himself at trial, planned
to call witnesses or to testify today.